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We performed kinetic simulations of diffusive shock acceleration in Type Ia supernova remnants (SNRs) expanding into a uniform interstellar medium (ISM). The preshock gas temperature is the primary parameter that governs the cosmic ray (CR)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-05-20 Hyesung Kang

The strong shocks in young supernova remnants (SNRs) should accelerate cosmic rays (CRs) and no doubt exists that \rel electrons are produced in SNRs. However, direct and convincing evidence that SNRs produce CR nuclei has not yet been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Donald C. Ellison , Gamil Cassam-Chenai

Over the past decade, $\gamma$-ray observations of supernova remnants (SNRs) and accurate cosmic-ray (CR) spectral measurements have significantly advanced our understanding of particle acceleration in SNRs. In combination with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-10 Xiao Zhang , Siming Liu

Context. Supernova remnants (SNRs) are thought to be the primary candidates for the sources of Galactic cosmic rays. According to the diffusive shock acceleration theory, SNR shocks produce a power-law spectrum with an index of s = 2,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 I. Telezhinsky , V. V. Dwarkadas , M. Pohl

The contribution of the Source Cosmic Rays (SCRs), confined in Supernova Remnants, to the diffuse high energy \gr emission above 1 GeV from the Galactic disk is studied. \grs produced by the SCRs have a much harder spectrum compared with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-03 Evgeny G. Berezhko , Heinrich J. Voelk

In a recent paper (Moskalenko et al., 2002), it has been shown that the flux of secondary cosmic ray (CR) antiprotons appears to be contradictory to measurements of secondary to primary nuclei ratios in cosmic rays when calculated in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-27 V. S. Ptuskin , I. V. Moskalenko , F. C. Jones , A. W. Strong , S. G. Mashnik

Explicitly time-dependent, nonlinear kinetic theory of cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in supernova remnants (SNRs) has been employed to investigate the properties of SNR RX J1713.7-3946. Observations of the nonthermal radio and X-ray emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-01 E. G. Berezhko , H. J. Völk

Observations show that the magnetic field in young supernova remnants (SNRs) is significantly stronger than can be expected from the compression of the circumstellar medium (CSM) by a factor of four expected for strong blast waves.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-08-05 K. M. Schure , J. Vink , A. Achterberg , R. Keppens

A systematic study of the synchrotron X-ray emission from supernova remnants (SNRs) has been conducted. We selected a total of 12 SNRs whose synchrotron X-ray spectral parameters are available in the literature with reasonable accuracy, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Ryoko Nakamura , Aya Bamba , Tadayasu Dotani , Manabu Ishida , Ryo Yamazaki , Kazunori Kohri

Recent measurements of the positron/electron ratio in the cosmic ray (CR) flux exhibits an apparent anomaly, whereby this ratio increases between 10 and 100 GeV. We show that inhomogeneity of CR sources on a scale of order a kpc, can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-06 Nir J. Shaviv , Ehud Nakar , Tsvi Piran

H-alpha emission from supernova remnants (SNRs) implies the existence of neutral hydrogens in the ambient medium. In the precursor of an SNR shock modified by cosmic rays (CRs), upstream plasmas are pushed by the CR pressure, but neutral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Yutaka Ohira , Fumio Takahara

We study the escape of cosmic-ray (CR) protons accelerated at a supernova remnant (SNR) by numerically solving a diffusion-convection equation from the vicinity of the shock front to the region far away from the front. We consider the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Yutaka Fujita , Fumio Takahara , Yutaka Ohira , Kazunari Iwasaki

The contribution of Source Cosmic Rays (SCRs), accelerated and still confined in Supernova Remnants (SNRs), to the diffuse high energy \gr emission above 1 GeV from the Galactic disk is studied. The \grs produced by the SCRs have a much…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. G. Berezhko , H. J. Voelk

We study cosmic-ray acceleration in a supernova remnant (SNR) and the escape from it. We model nonthermal particle and photon spectra for the hidden SNR in the open cluster Westerlund 2, and the old-age mixed-morphology SNR W 28. We assume…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Yutaka Fujita , Yutaka Ohira , Shuta J. Tanaka , Fumio Takahara

A simple formalism to describe nonthermal electron acceleration, evolution, and radiation in supernova remnants (SNRs) is presented. The electron continuity equation is analytically solved assuming that the nonthermal electron injection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Justin D. Finke , Charles D. Dermer

Antimatter nuclei in cosmic rays (CRs) are a promising tool for the indirect detection of dark-matter annihilation signatures. However, the search of new-physics signals in CRs relies on our knowledge of the astrophysical antimatter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-31 Alberto Oliva , Nicola Tomassetti , Jie Feng

The spectral shape of cosmic ray positrons and antiprotons has been accurately measured in the broad kinetic energy range 1-350 GeV. In the higher part of this range (E > 30 GeV) the e+ and pbar are both well described by power laws with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-15 Paolo Lipari

We calculate synchrotron radio emission and gamma-ray emission due to bremsstrahlung, inverse-Compton scattering and $pi^0$-decay from the remnant of supernova which exploded in the circumstellar matter (CSM) formed by the progenitor's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Takafumi Shimizu , Kuniaki Masai , Katsuji Koyama

We explain the excess of the antiproton fraction recently reported by the AMS-02 experiment by considering collisions between cosmic-ray protons accelerated by a local supernova remnant (SNR) and the surrounding dense cloud. The same…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-21 Kazunori Kohri , Kunihito Ioka , Yutaka Fujita , Ryo Yamazaki

The spectra of high-energy protons and nuclei accelerated by supernova remnant shocks are calculated taking into account magnetic field amplification and Alfvenic drift both upstream and downstream of the shock for different types of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 V. S. Ptuskin , V. N. Zirakashvili , E. S. Seo